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About Us

We have over five decades of combined social work assessment experience. We are recognised experts in our  field of  work, and in meaningfully engaging and facilitating parents, including those with additional learning needs and learning  disabilities, and in providing creative helpful and really  effective approaches to assessment.

Our mission has  always  been  simply  to promote improved  social  work  practices,  for  better  outcomes.  CUBAS was  designed from outset to meet the need for more meaningful and  effective ways of working with families,  without  patronising them.  In  CUBAS we have created a really contemporary assessment solution, that  assists  and  supports  EVERYONE  involved. 

Clair Chamberlain

Clair is experienced over 20 years in social work practice with children and families and in therapeutic foster care. She is widely recognised as an extremely effective social worker, trainer and team manager, leading consistently ‘outstanding’ rated organisations with a relentless focus on improving and maintaining services to children and families. Clair is described by Ofsted as “Consistently raising the bar in the pursuit of high-quality outcomes for children”. Clair is a robust witness with detailed insight, and professional and personal integrity.

As a highly respected manager and independent SW practitioner, Clair is dedicated to creative, constructive and meaningful work with families, and to tailoring parent/carer engagement, assessment, and change interventions to really make them count. Clair’s professional insight, creativity and integrity are reflected throughout CUBAS and its' accompanying training programme. She has brought all her expertise to CUBAS and the training courses she delivers personally.  

Geraldine Wetherell

Geraldine is a highly regarded SW expert witness within childcare proceedings. She is an accomplished trainer, experienced over 35+years across Early years, LD's, fostering and adoption, Child protection, intensive Family support services, Children in care, LT teams management , and Independent SW as an expert witness.  

Geraldine is widely reputed for her professional balance and integrity in complex legal proceedings and childcare practice. Geraldine’s engagement techniques, her ability to establish full understanding of whole family functioning are widely appreciated by local authorities, guardians, legal professionals and the courts, as well as by families. CUBAS and the accredited training courses incorporate Geraldine’s wide range of experience and established knowledge of her profession as well as her experience as a highly effective trainer. 

Geraldine has tailored CUBAS and the training programme accordingly, to facilitate ALL parents in full engagement, using ‘what works’ and many creative appproaches to enable social workers in this complex field of family assessment to make every assessment meaningful. Also to enable timely and fully considered analysis and recommendations to local authorities and /or the court.

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